Chapter 283 – Chapter 283 Independence-12
Alex looked down at the basement and said softly.
“I didn’t expect to see you at the party again. What are you here for today?”
“Are you here where I shouldn’t be?”
She chinned Shirel, who was being escorted down by a maid downstairs.
“I only came because I wanted to come to this party.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Alex tilted her head gracefully.
He is a child full of dignity, like a prince who seems to come out of a cartoon.
“I don’t know, but it seems the two of you have a very special relationship. It’s a well-matched pair. I am very envious.”
“Don’t you have a girl?”
“Unfortunately, I don’t have any ties.”
“Isn’t it because you can’t see it?”
When the basement spoke slowly, Alex didn’t answer right away.
I’m talking about it, but I knew that this stage was Alex’s trap.
‘It doesn’t matter if I come, and if I don’t come, I was thinking of taking Syrel hostage. If I wasn’t swayed by the hostage situation, I would have just killed Syrel.’
Louchen killed citizens without hesitation to earn time, but Alex was also a formidable guy.
In the end, this guy was a high-ranking executive of a secret society that promised to turn the world upside down, attracting irrelevant people and using them for experiments.
“It just didn’t have a relationship.”
When Alex tried to pass it in moderation, the basement told him more specifically.
“Compared to Gasiel, no other woman catches her eye?”
“… There must have been no relationship because I was lacking.”
Alex struggled to say it, but he could feel his teeth clenched.
Gasiel’s story was Alex’s Achilles heel.
Even the mention of her name by another man shows signs of intense rage.
‘It’s a real mental illness…’
Underground laughed and walked forward. Then Alex held out her arm to block her.
“Wait. We will do a body search before entering the party. Because this is all a procedure…”
“Of course I have a weapon. What are you talking about?”
Underground showed off the gladius he had hidden inside his suit jacket, on his back.
“… You must have said that bringing weapons is prohibited.”
“Lou Chen will come, but with her bare hands?”
Alex frowned at her.
She never thought it was her face.
“Why is he coming? I didn’t call.”
“The shade you played before, was that Louchen lent you?”
“…”
Alex didn’t answer, but he was right.
Alex would be more advanced than Lou Chen, but she wasn’t skilled enough.
“You have been assisted by Lou Chen with her forces, but she has lost nothing and gained nothing.”
“What does that matter? Shade is just a convenient soldier to him anyway. Moreover, what I did before…”
At the words of the underground, Alex was furious.
Even if she admits that she’s not as good as Lou Chen, she’ll be offended when you’re openly told that you’re worse.
“It doesn’t stop there, it seems that Lou Chen is misunderstanding you and me.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“Well, explain that later.”
Jiha smiled and walked forward.
Alex followed, bewildered.
“Wait a minute. Underground, what the hell…”
“There may be more guests coming, so can you come with me?”
“…”
Alex stopped abruptly.
Underground left a message as he walked toward Sirell.
“I’ll be enjoying the party, so let’s talk about the details slowly.”
Party leader.
The number of invited guests alone seems to be 400.
Mainly merchants, retired politicians and the wealthy.
If the previous party was a private party where only men gathered, now it was a place where celebrities from each field of Warris gathered.
Usually, they were busy with their own work, but Ji-ha, who entered the party with Cheryl, immediately drew attention.
Jiha, the man who declared martial law in Warris, was now a man who held more power than anyone else in this place.
Everyone saw him and wanted to approach him, but he seemed to be cautious.
‘Well, it usually needs an introduction… High-ranking people like friendship.’
Those who believed that they were dignified tended to regard them as inferior if approached first.
So, an introductory course was necessary.
See you first? This is the brother of a friend’s cousin’s friend’s cousin who I know.
I’ve heard a lot of words. It’s an honor to meet you.
Aigoo, that’s me…
This process of weighing each other’s ranks is essential, but it didn’t work for the basement.
Underground, which prioritizes practicality and purpose, prioritized recruiting combatants.
Those with social prestige below the ground were only tamed Uniques.
Of course, there are several faces I know while taking over the Merchant Guild, but they don’t come quickly to roll the abacus.
‘They look intently.’
Jiha laughed and grasped the interior structure of the party hall.
Just looking at the gorgeously decorated interior and the arrangement of the drinking glasses that anyone can pick up on the rectangular table, there is no gap.
Just looking at that one, you could tell right away how much money and effort went into this party.
As a secretary to a high-ranking person, I could figure it out right away in the underground.
Standing next to the basement, Sirell shook his head.
“… It must have been where I was coming.”
“What are you talking about. It’s pretty.”
As the underground laughed and said, Syrel rolled her eyes.
“Mmm, yes. What. Let’s eat and drink something delicious while we’re here. Higher people will do it on their own.”
Syrel went to get a drink, not just a horse, but a real one.
A person sneakily approached the basement that was watching the back.
It was Pyran, a cool-headed beauty with dark blue hair that was braided differently than usual.
“I’m here.”
Unlike underground, Pyran did not come with an invitation, but she infiltrated.
Those who watched her underground recognized that she was a former super rare and now unique ghost, but she did not think that she was an infiltrator.
Why did Unique come in through the back door?
“What about Barjet?”
“I am doing as you say. It doesn’t look like there’s been any results yet.”
Barjett was searching Alex’s mansion now.
‘Gasiel is definitely here.’
Alex’s obsession with his older sister, Gasiel, was at the level of a psychopath.
If she hid it, she would have to be able to check it at any time so that it would be clear.
‘Even if someone is guarding it, the unique Barjet cannot be stopped.’
Jiha said that Barjet was the best, but she was still a woman with a corner to fight back.
This is a very strange feature… First of all, the women who were buried in the basement couldn’t even make a sound.
“…”
Isn’t Pyran also silent right now?
Even women with strong personalities don’t have the heart to rush after knowing the underground, but Barjet even pretended to be rebellious.
The reason Jihaa bothered to make Barjet a human was because that part seemed to be sprouting.
‘If Py-Lan moves, she goes into Alex’s mansion with me. Because she spilled it on the street on purpose. Using Pyran as a bait to seduce Louchen, Barjet has him search for Gasiel. She’s not very reliable, but there’s no other alternative.’
When the time comes, Asira and Yura will lead the security forces following the underground, working with the security officers to double blockade Warris.
Narsha entrusted the defense of his barracks in case of an unexpected situation.
After Pyran used the elimination method as a bait to attract Louchen, there was no one other than Barzet to entrust the search for Gasiel.
‘Well, it’s a job that requires less blood, so I’m sure you’ll do well. In fact, you can do half of it…’
Jiha actually ordered Barjet, but did not expect much. Even if she finds Gasiel, she will not be able to function properly.
Pyran pointed out.
“I think it would be dangerous to have civilians with you here.”
It’s the story of Cheryl.
Unaware of the circumstances of the party, she tilted her eyes at the numerous glasses, then grabbed a passing waiter and asked a question.
The basement answered calmly.
“It’s more dangerous if you’re not by my side. Either your brother or Alex will try to take them hostage.”
“My brother is such a person…”
“You don’t kill civilians?”
As her subterranean laughed, Pyran shut her mouth.
Hadn’t she killed random civilians before calling out the Shade to block the pursuit?
“… You weren’t that kind of person.”
“Why did that happen?”
Jiha was really curious about her brother and sister’s past.
Her brother tried to burn the world by becoming a top tier striker in a secret society, and her sister even converted and became Unique to try to stop such an older brother.
“I’m saying this because I don’t know how demons live.”
“I know she’s being rejected by her parents.”
“… We were neither of those things. It would have been better if it had.”
Looking at the gaze from the underground, Pyran spoke slowly.
“Our biological parents are brother and sister.”
“…”
Incestuous marriage?
Depending on the era and culture, it was taboo in the modern world.
Was Wordsland different? Pyran, who knew the meaning of the underground eyes, explained further.
“That’s crazy. It is different for each race, but it is common that marriage within cousins is taboo. But… Sometimes that is not the case.”
“What?”
“It was natural in the village where we were born.”
Pyran said sadly.
“At first glance, it was a village of humans living quietly in a remote place, but they didn’t take in outsiders. They were afraid that their secret would be revealed. I didn’t even know when I was a kid… I knew her parents had an incestuous marriage to make me.”
“…”
“There are human bloodlines that are especially good at ghosts. My parents, who were brother and sister, became a couple to inherit the blood. My brother and I were born in a village built for the purpose of producing demons.”
“A multi-generational experiment?”
The basement responded coldly.
Human lifespan in Wordsland was no different from Earth.
The advanced countries of the earth are in the age of 100, but Wordsland’s civilization is relatively backward, so humans tend to live long when they are 50 years old.
However, this is a human story, and if a long-lived species works for hundreds of years, it is possible to control the succession of a particular human lineage.
“For such an experiment, aren’t demons a small number of people?”
Due to the odd eyes and pale skin, Yo-gwi stood out in appearance.
“Because the focus was on making a particularly powerful ghost, not just a ghost. Usually, the fetus can’t accept the shade and die right away. If you miscarry like that, you will have the next child. The town I lived in… It was such a terrible place.”
“…”
It meant a place where humans were domesticated.
“Is that allowed?”
“… In Wordsland, humans have no central point. Although they belong to both camps, they only occasionally create villages for small humans, and above all, no uniques have ever appeared, so their political position is very weak.”
“So you made a deal with Shade?”
“… Where I was, it was.”
Since I had no power, I made a deal to gain power.
A village that collectively makes a deal to offer its unborn child to an evil spirit trapped in the other world.
“…”
I came to Wordsland and had seen all the horrors underground, but this was a story that really sent chills down my spine.
I was not insane.
“… Our siblings have been the most successful. After all, they were brother and sister born safely into the world riding on the hand of the King of the Night.”
“So?”
“The village’s expectations of us were very high. Actually, my brother was talented. Even in the hundreds of years of village history, he had the best talent, so he quickly surpassed the adults.”
“The end must be a tragedy.”
At the words of the underground, Pyran slowly nodded.
“But in the end, it came to the conclusion that it wasn’t enough to summon the Night King. So adults… I believed that the next child born of the blood of my brother and I would become the ghost who would summon the night king. A ghost never had children, but the King of the Night directly handed it to us, so the two of us would be different.”
“…”
Forcibly inbreeding siblings born of incest? How many hundred years has it been like this?
Jiha recalled the information about Iroha.
Blue, Purple, and Ouroboros all secretly experimented with artificially endowing them with magic.
As soon as the unethical experiment became known, people would rebel against it to the extent that even the conventional wisdom that it was the law of the jungle could not be suppressed.
Part of it is this now.
“We decided to refuse, but… My brother and I had different opinions. I said I should run away to another village, and my brother said I should kill everyone.”
“…”
“I tried to stop my brother, but I couldn’t stand it…”
Killing everyone in the village meant killing your own parents as well.
The basement closed its eyes.
“When we met again, my brother was in Ouroboros and I was under Ashira-sama.”
“Talk too much.”
“…”
“The parties will say so.”
Pyran, who was savoring the words of the underground, reflexively looked back.
Reaction stiffened, I looked around the basement slowly.
Lou Chen stood with a glass in his hand.
“You talk a lot, Pi.”
As the underground said as expected.
